From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964811Ab2KVS6T (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:58:19 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:37038 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755431Ab2KVS6J (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:58:09 -0500 Message-ID: <50AE6542.3020302@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:47:46 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121029 Thunderbird/16.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: Daniel Kiper , andrew.cooper3@citrix.com, jbeulich@suse.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, x86@kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] kexec: introduce kexec_ops struct References: <1353423893-23125-1-git-send-email-daniel.kiper@oracle.com> <1353423893-23125-2-git-send-email-daniel.kiper@oracle.com> <87lidwtego.fsf@xmission.com> <20121121105221.GA2925@host-192-168-1-59.local.net-space.pl> <87txshx28b.fsf@xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <87txshx28b.fsf@xmission.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The other thing that should be considered here is how utterly preposterous the notion of doing in-guest crash dumping is in a system that contains a hypervisor. The reason for kdump is that on bare metal there are no other options, but in a hypervisor system the right thing should be for the hypervisor to do the dump (possibly spawning a clean I/O domain if the I/O domain is necessary to access the media.) There is absolutely no reason to have a crashkernel sitting around in each guest, consuming memory, and possibly get corrupt. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.